[PDF] Global Government Under The Us Constitution eBook

Author : J. A. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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The international political system, built on a foundation of sovereign states, has not effectively addressed age-old quandaries of war, crime, poverty, oppression, corruption, and environmental degradation. Modern social and technological trends are further stressing this system to the breaking point. Global Government under the U.S. Constitution examines this failing system and proposes an entirely new approach. Instead of an international system built on sovereign nation-states, this work argues that federal democracy provides a better, proven model for global governance. While such an idea may linger from time to time in the background of thought, it has never moved to the forefront because of the difficulty in imagining how it could be realized. Now, however, this book thrusts forward a concrete method, arguing that the U.S. Constitution establishes a sound system for large-scale governance. This federal democracy should naturally extend globally, to address current international social problems. It did so first among thirteen colonies and later across a continent and beyond. Global Government under the U.S. Constitution also explains specific legal means to affect such an idea, making it a fascinating read for officials, academics, leaders, and students alike. Book jacket.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Michael Mathiesen
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Political Science
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The recent Coronavirus pandemic has taught us that our individual governments are not up to the job of taking on global challenges. What will happen when the next global crisis brought forth by the growing Climate Crisis? What will happen when things get really raunchy and we are all forced to fight for the scraps of a failing world environment coming soon? The only answer is to form a new Global Government and for that we will all need a Global Constitution that is acceptable to all and that protects and extends the RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS that we all agree are God-given and deserve to be given to all persons living on the Earth today - not just the lucky few who happen to be born in a more politically advanced society. No one should be forced to live under a tyrant or dictator. Nowhere on this planet should laws be made that we all abide by without a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS of approval by the people who are wanting to live under the laws of the land. No country should be able to bully another country because they have bigger cannons or the latest machine guns, cannons, bombs and bombers. No country should live in fear of a neighbor. No person should live in fear of their government. Every person should have the right to a say in how their government works and be the authority in every sense of the word. All people should have the right to a referendum on any given issue whose results must be obeyed by the government because all government derives from the people. Government's purpose is not to enslave its people, but to be enslaved by them. No government shall have the right to destroy the planet even if they are able to keep their destruction within their own borders. The Earth belongs to us all. Not a square inch of it belongs to a politician, a ruler, a political party or a corporation. All of the Earth is shared by all and its resources must never be squandered and there should be a global authority capable of enforcing the preservation of the Earth. If you don't complete reading this book and you are not 100% convinced that it's time for a Global Constitution, then I believe you are the results of hundreds of years of brainwashing and all is lost for the Human Race if there is more of you than people who are not brainwashed and can still think clearly. This is not Communism. This is not Socialism. This is not Republican or Democratic. This Global Constitution is merely the life-long research and original thought of one person, the author, who believes that the equality and harmony and unity offered by a Global Constitution for all people of the Earth is completely logical and will someday be taken for granted by countless generations of our kind for thousands of years to come - that is if we can survive the mess that out-dated, horse-and-buggy political systems have delivered to us and which is killing us, even bringing us to the edge of Extinction. With a completely new and revolutionary move in the right direction, Humankind can avert total catastrophe and it is in this spirit that the completely new Global Constitution, the One World Government to Save The Earth is offered.

Author : Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108476961

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Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878

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Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

Author : Julian Ku
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199837422

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As the nations of the world become more interconnected and less isolated every day, the U.S. legal system has struggled to take advantage of globalization's benefits while protecting the country's sovereignty. In Taming Globalization, Julian Ku and John Yoo offer a bold new look at this growing problem, arguing that the political branches and not the courts should be implementing and enforcing international law in the U.S. This reconciliation of globalization and the U.S. Constitution will influence debates now raging in courtrooms, the halls of Congress, and the public arena.

Author : Ronald J. Glossop
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :

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The 21st century may be the age of globalism, with such nongovernmental organizations as the International Red Cross, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International serving the world without regard to nationalities. Is the next step a federal world government?The pros and cons of a democratic federal world government are carefully reasoned here, as are the basic concepts of such a federation, and the relationship of law and government. The author's analysis brings one to the conclusion that a global federation is inevitable despite the many obstacles.

Author : Jeremy A. Rabkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1400826608

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What authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question. Americans have long asked whether the United States should join forces with institutions such as the International Criminal Court and sign on to agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. Rabkin argues that the value of international agreements in such circumstances must be weighed against the threat they pose to liberties protected by strong national authority and institutions. He maintains that the protection of these liberties could be fatally weakened if we go too far in ceding authority to international institutions that might not be zealous in protecting the rights Americans deem important. Similarly, any cessation of authority might leave Americans far less attached to the resulting hybrid legal system than they now are to laws they can regard as their own. Law without Nations? traces the traditional American wariness of international law to the basic principles of American thought and the broader traditions of liberal political thought on which the American Founders drew: only a sovereign state can make and enforce law in a reliable way, so only a sovereign state can reliably protect the rights of its citizens. It then contrasts the American experience with that of the European Union, showing the difficulties that can arise from efforts to merge national legal systems with supranational schemes. In practice, international human rights law generates a cloud of rhetoric that does little to secure human rights, and in fact, is at odds with American principles, Rabkin concludes. A challenging and important contribution to the current debates about the meaning of multilateralism and international law, Law without Nations? will appeal to a broad cross-section of scholars in both the legal and political science arenas.

Author : President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400851270

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The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance "We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."—The NSA Report This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties—without compromising national security.

Author : Emily Zackin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 069115578X

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Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.

Author : Blake Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136661816

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Constitutions and the Commons looks at a critical but little examined issue of the degree to which the federal constitution of a nation contributes toward or limits the ability of the national government to manage its domestic natural resources. Furthermore it considers how far the constitution facilitates the binding of constituent states, provinces or subnational units to honor the conditions of international environmental treaties. While the main focus is on the US, there is also detailed coverage of other nations such as Australia, Brazil, India, and Russia. After introducing the role of constitutions in establishing the legal framework for environmental management in federal systems, the author presents a continuum of constitutionally driven natural resource management scenarios, from local to national, and then to global governance. These sections describe how subnational governance in federal systems may take on the characteristics of a commons – with all the attendant tragedies – in the absence of sufficient national constitutional authority. In turn, sufficient national constitutional authority over natural resources also allows these nations to more effectively engage in efforts to manage the global commons, as these nations would be unconstrained by subnational units of government during international negotiations. It is thus shown that national governments in federal systems are at the center of a constitutional 'nested governance commons,' with lower levels of government potentially acting as rational herders on the national commons and national governments potentially acting as rational herders on the global commons. National governments in federal systems are therefore crucial to establishing sustainable management of resources across scales. The book concludes by discussing how federal systems without sufficient national constitutional authority over resources may be strengthened by adopting the approach of federal constitutions that facilitate more robust national level inputs into natural resources management, facilitating national minimum standards as a form of "Fail-safe Federalism" that subnational governments may supplement with discretion to preserve important values of federalism.